Saturday 20 December 2014

From SteH - "Send out your Warg Riders" (62 Points)

And in keeping with the Lord of the Rings theme that's permeating the Challenge this year I present my second standard entry, six of Games Workshops plastic Warg Riders.


Now if anyone has seen my blog you may recall that I started a Lord of the Rings on a budget project some time ago and these guys were one of my acquisitions (costing me a trade of a few Necrons that I would never ever actually paint or use). Anyway I ended up with about 13 warg riders in various states of completion and thus had to repair strip and repaint accordingly.


The captain is a conversion as the model had no arm and seeing as I'd acquired these second hand I had no appropriate spares. Therefore for the arm I cannibalised an old LoTR goblin, hacked off the head and used a metal head that I found in my bits box from a previous lotr acquisition. A bit of green stuff sculpting to fill the gaps and voila, a truly ugly orc captain to lead his own Warg warband.





Now I just need to repair, strip and paint the other seven!

From Curt:
Beautiful work Ste! I think your conversion of the warg rider captain came off wonderfully. I also really like the shading of the wargs themselves, especially their faces - excellent stuff.
 
I'm going to add a couple points for the conversion, so 62 points total. I look forward to seeing the other seven in the next few weeks!

18 comments:

  1. Very nice Warg riders. The colors are great! I'm afraid to start my LotR! There is a lot of nice entries that I'm fearful for a "meh"! But it does increasingly seem to be "when in Rome" !
    I really like the wargs excellent recovery of them!

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  2. For me the best part of film 2 is the wargs. You have done them justice. Like the leader and as far as I am concerned a very good swap you made.

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  3. Really impressive unit. Wargs are great with fab shading. May have to dig out my very old box dwarfs and find something cool to paint to join in the subtext of the challenge

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  4. A theme has definitely developed across a range of Challengers.

    Excellent work Ste :)

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  5. Nice work here and the conversion on the arm swap.

    Best wishes on getting the others stripped and painted!

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  6. Lovely muted colours and nice basing make these a cracking second entry. Really nice miniatures. Looking forward to your next submission.

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  7. Beautifully painted, with a great sense of unit colour cohesion.

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  8. Really nice painting work. They are wonderful!

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  9. Jolly nice work Ste! Not knowing much about LotR minis I would not have know the captain was converted you've done such a sterling job.

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  10. Really nice painting and an excellent conversion.
    Cheers

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  11. Cheers chaps, it's nice to get a few points on the board, I just have to try and keep up with everyone else!

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  12. These are great and never would guess these were repair and repaint jobs.

    Ian

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  13. I love the converted captain, he's exceptional. A terrific entry, nice to see more LOTR stuff.

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  14. Excellent job Ste. And I can vouch for a personal close up view on Thursday night. Great stuff!

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    1. PS you might want to see if you can get at least one more done by the 28th then you can enter it for the Mount bonus theme round too!

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  15. Never would have known he was a conversion. Great job.

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